Wednesday, June 8, 2011
OH EM GEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The new battle in feminism is defending your right to stay home and be a housewife. Seriously. I swear if one more person congratulates me for getting a job or tells me how proud they are of me, I am going to fucking punch someone in the face. Well its not the congratulating part that bothers me. Its the way they say it. The tone in their voice, as though I am finally doing something with myself,. You would think that I had been living in my parents basement getting drunk and high for the last six years. The fact that I was cooking, cleaning, taking care of dogs, cats and a child had while keeping my man happy apparently took less effort than scratching my ass. Its nothing, nothing at all. Why the fuck do I need to be congratulated for leaving my house and working for someone else? Its something some 70% of the planet does. Its not that special. I'm not downplaying how hard everyone else works or even how hard I work. Its just that the fact that I started working should not be treated as some kind of special event. As though, I had some kind of mental disability that prevented me from doing things and someone finally took pity on me and decided to hire me. Chill the fuck out people! Its not that big a deal and if I decided to quit my job and go back to being a stay at home mom again, it would totally be ok. There is nothing wrong with that. I shouldn't have to defend that option. ahhhhhhhhhhh
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Yeah, I just got a little part time job and the most random people are SO HAPPY for me. I was just thinking the very same thing on my way to pick the girls. And those that know me really well know that this job was needed, but it's the acquaintances who are jumping for joy that puzzle me.
I don't know because I don't hear the tone. But I think it's pretty normal to congratulate someone on a new job. You got a job because you either WANTED it, so congrats on something you wanted and got, or because you NEED it, so again, congrats on getting something you need. I know a lot of unemployed people right now really desperate for a job who would definitely view getting one as an occasion for congratulations. And a lot of people know a lot of people like that right now, so it's probably just automatic to view getting employment as a positive thing. Not necessarily an indictment of your SAHM life. But like I said, I don't know the tone, so maybe some people DO mean it like that. SAHMs must get a lot of shit because they always seem on the defensive about it.
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